A place to put all the nerdy bits of artwork I do in my spare time.
All work copyright Nick Carver 2008-2012

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Hawken Made Me Do It...

Hey there,

I decided to take a bit of a break from my ongoing project to work on a few different ideas for a bit. Firstly, I've been playing Hawken a bunch lately and I'm really impressed by how much fun the game already is. I really think the guys at Adhesive are doing a great job of making the combat feel weighty yet maneuverable. The game looks fantastic too. So I decided to design a mech that hopefully wouldn't look out of place in the Hawken world. I wanted to go for a support/medic class with extinguishing/welding capabilities so I tried to get some fire truck design elements in there with all the other greebles. I also borrowed copiously from a bunch of ref I got from mech maestro Fausto De Martini (cheers Fausto!). Photobashing the details in there was really fun.

Here's the 3d base I started with. You can see a bunch of areas changed after I took it into Photoshop:

Badger: Thanks! I'm going to put an animated gif of the photoshop steps in my next blog post to add some further process info.

Fausto: Well, well, well. The mech maestro himself! Cheers Fausto. I'm really glad you liked this piece and I definitely took great inspiration from a BUNCH of the mechanical stuff you've created. So, a double debt of gratitude from me!